Monday, June 09, 2014

CHICAGO, June 9.—Big league managers looking for scrappy players would do well to investigate the Amateur Managers’ league.

Two fire companies and a squad of police were called early on Tuesday to help the A.M. league directors decide whether the Alamos or High Mountains won last Sunday’s game, in which mounted police suppressed a riot in the seventh inning.

While the league directors were in session on Monday night, volleys of rocks came through the windows. To climax the trouble a blaze was started beneath their meeting room.

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pretty crazy game in pittsburgh yesterday. think the brewers hit the ball square maybe 3 times all game. the strike zone was the size of kenya. pirates received several free challenges/reviews because why not? clint hurdle's blood pressure easily spiked over 200/140 at least twice. yovani gallardo was left in to complete a 7th inning where he loaded the bases with less than one out and had thrown more than 110 pitches. russell martin was called out on a strike 3 that maybe was a strike to an 8 year old

As more evidence piles up that the easiest way to become a professional baseball player is to the related to a professional baseball player, Kyle Gaedele, Eddie Gaedel's grand nephew was in the minors at least into 2012. Haven't checked anything more recent.

The Game of 6/6/84 contained about 6.8 buckets of fun. The same player scored the first and last runs of the game, both coming after he reached on errors. That player's positional counterpart drove in all of his team's runs with one of his two career grand slams. One team's starter pitched 5 more innings than the other, yet both teams used the same number of relievers. One of those relievers had one of his 15 career hits during a go-ahead extra-inning rally. The tying run scored in the ninth on the second-to-last career double by an excellent hitter. And, arguably most enjoyable of all, one of the teams issued a horrible intentional walk and it immediately blew up in their faces.

As more evidence piles up that the easiest way to become a professional baseball player is to the related to a professional baseball player, Kyle Gaedele, Eddie Gaedel's grand nephew was in the minors at least into 2012. Haven't checked anything more recent.

He's made it up to Double A, but his outlook isn't terribly good for further advancement (.159/.239/.329) at San Antonio. I've been pulling for him since he's a Valpo kid, and of course, because he's Eddie's kin.

The Game of 6/8/84 was a good one between two good teams whose playoff aspirations were doomed by the division they played in. In the meantime, however, they put up a game which never had a lead larger than a run, and in which a Hall of Fame starting pitcher went eight innings without putting the opponents down 1-2-3 in any of them, before turning the game over to someone who was transforming into one of the league's best relievers.

The Game of 6/8/84 was a good one between two good teams whose playoff aspirations were doomed by the division they played in. In the meantime, however, they put up a game which never had a lead larger than a run, and in which a Hall of Fame starting pitcher went eight innings without putting the opponents down 1-2-3 in any of them, before turning the game over to someone who was transforming into one of the league's best relievers.

He's played that role in at least one other Jays game I've seen this year, maybe more. Kind of odd seeing that role for a future two-time Cy Young runner-up, even if he was a struggling rookie at the time.

Since I was out of town for the weekend, I didn't have time for separate posts on the best games of all three days this year - but this one gives quick recaps of the best of Friday and Sunday, plus a full description of Saturday's best game, complete with consecutive do-or-die comebacks and a momentary referendum on an important trade from a year or so agoa.

Lofton only had six HRs in two full years at Municipal Stadium in 92-93. Hit 109 over the next decade, but only seven years with the Tribe. He was in Atlanta in '97 and started his vagabond journey in '02. Nine teams between 02-07.

Lofton was focused on basketball at the University of Arizona and hit the majors relatively late, turning 25 two months into his first full season.